Thank you for defending the freedom of knowledge, thought and speech.

Yes and yes!!! As a librarian, torally agree! The fundamental of being a librarian is being the guardian of freedom of intellect, speech and privacy.

Sigh. Just what is... You know I gave up understanding this country. The library of Congress is a place of records. It issues copyrights and other important things for publishers. It's not just a library. It is is THE library of records and research.

As a librarian, this angers me. It simply meant he will purge anyone he didn't see fit in his idealistic world. Not to say this is a manner of hushing the right to freedom and speech in many ways. What is library when we don't have those freedom to seek knowledge?

Working as a librarian is about bringing joy to families with the power of books. Recently had a family that came up to me and expressed their gratitude by telling me how vast and diverse our children chinese collection was. I felt touch as it meant this collection is making difference in someone's